Category: Scotland
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Our Last Tastes of Scotland…for Now
It was almost time to say goodbye to Scotland, but we made sure to save a few highlights, and a few favorites for the last week. We visited our last Scottish castle and garden for awhile, a globally renown whiskey distillery, and a loch known for its special inhabitant. One Last Castle We had a…
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Whiskey, Bagpipes, and Stories by a Peat Fire
This week after arriving back on the Mainland from Isle of Skye, where we visited a lovely pub, a traditional distillery in the Speyside region, and found a few bagpipe bands. We had a few days on the Mainland before hopping on another ferry to Orkney where we attempted to find Puffins and learned a…
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Lewis and Harris, is it one island or two?
This week we’re headed to the Isle of Lewis and Harris. While it is geographically one island, it is considered to be two separate islands. The southern third is Harris while the northern two-thirds is Lewis. We spent five days exploring both parts of the island, before heading back to the Isle of Skye to…
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Our Winding Journey to the Isle of Skye
As we made our way north from Glasgow, we had marked several places we wanted to stop in this area, but it wasn’t exactly a straight line to Isle of Skye. Although, I don’t think there are any roads that are in a straight line in Scotland. It did help us avoid some of the…